New Year, New Challenge for #HMFMC161

Eeeeek!! Happy New Year Peeps! 

Welcome to 2014 and back to House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog! We are very happy you are here and hope you've had a beautiful Holiday Season. This Mousey Team thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful break too and couldn't wait to get back to crafting and back to our beloved House-Mouse Fans. :)

THANK YOU for making the time to play along with us on our month-long "Silver or Gold" Challenge, #HMFMC160.  We absolutely loved the silver and gold sparkling touches on your gorgeous creations using the adorable stamps, decoupage and cd's by House-Mouse Designs®.  Our fab Teamie Sue Drees, was the challenge hostess and she has chosen her two Lucky winners!  (This is always tough to do amongst all of your beautiful entries) 

 The Lucky Winner of the House-Mouse Designs® $25 Gift Certificate is...

ENTRY #37, which belongs to Beth Brovold, of Contagious Crafts

The Lucky Winner of the Joanna Sheen Ltd. $10 Gift Voucher is...

ENTRY #23, which belongs to Karen Foy, of Scrappy Doodle Doo

CONGRATULATIONS!

We loved your gorgeous entries! 

Please contact America to claim your Prizes within the next 2 weeks.

 

  *** NEW CHALLENGE, #HMFMC161 ***

It is America's turn to Host and she wants to see you using a
House-Mouse Designs® Stamp that you haven't used before!

So pull out those adorable House-Mouse Designs® stamps that you have but have never used. Time for them to seen some ink, heh?  Cant wait to see your unused stash.
There are great prizes up for grabs, so be sure to play!

*** SPONSORS ***

Before we get to the new challenge, we'd like to thank all of our wonderful Sponsors who graciously sponsored us last year. We sincerely appreciate your amazing generosity. If you would like to Sponsor the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog, please contact America or any DT Member for the details and date availabilities.

We would also like to welcome back the amazing Simon Says Stamp as our special Sponsor for 2014! Thank you!

 The first Challenge of the NEW Year is very proudly sponsored by:

We are very excited about this fabulous prize from Simon Says Stamp! They are generously giving away a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of some of their Premium Dye Ink Pads to one very lucky player! 

Simon Says Stamp has over 100,000+ items in stock along with the latest and greatest releases from Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Tim Holtz, Spellbinders, Copics, House-Mouse Designs and so much more.  With such an amazing variety and awesome deals on shipping, it’s always good timing to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp store!

... AND WE ALSO HAVE ... 

TWO EXTRA PRIZES for TWO Additional Winners.

That's right! Our very own Teamie and Challenge Hostess, America, would like to add prizes for Two additional players who will each get to choose two House-Mouse Designs stamps of their choice from the following photo assortments.  (The Winners will choose one small wooden House-Mouse Designs stamp from the first set and one large wooden House-Mouse Designs stamp from the second set)
That's 3 total prizes to give away, and that means you'll have 3 chances to win!  Isn't this EXCITING?   So don't miss out on yours and be sure to make time to play along! :)

 Please Note; Where applicable, the shipping, handling and tax fees of the prizes are the winner's responsibility.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our sweet Teamie Kate Wiles has decided to change status on our Mousey Team and has gone from a regular Design team Member to a "Floater".  This is great news for our little Mousey Family because it means she is still here with the Team, but will only be contributing as she as goes and as time allows her to. Thank you Kate for all you do! :)

*** GUEST DESIGNERS ***

We want to give our special thanks to the wonderful GDTS that worked alongside us during Nov and Dec 2013:  Ema,  Jacky Knight,  Kim Dear and  Mary Draper
We appreciate your help and loved your gorgeous contributions. 

Please also help us to give a warm welcome our three NEWEST Guest Designers joining us for January and February of 2014. We're very excited to be working alongside the fabulous;
Janet McLaughlin and Marlene Atkinson and Vickie Yeakley

                  *** Fabulous Guest Designers samples***              

Janet McLaughlin

              
                

Marlene Atkinson

                      

  Vickie Yeakley
    
          

FABULOUS DESIGN TEAM SAMPLES

 

America Kuhn

Christine Craig
 

Donna Hanley

Dorte Kvist

Heather Gilfoy Bond

Kelly Smith
 

 Lori Barnett

Lorraine Aquilina, aka; "Lols"

Natascha Banning
 

Pauline Bird

Sue Drees

Sue Kment

Tom Bush

Tracy Thompson

 

  A BIG Thank you to all of our talented Designers for such gorgeous contributions!

Now it's YOUR turn to play!  Here are the RULES...

1. Create a project that follows the current theme using only House-Mouse Designs® stamps;  House-Mouse and Friends, Gruffies, or, Happy Hoppers. 


2. Enter your projects into this challenge by using the inlinkz tool found below.


3.    Reference our Challenge CODE and link your work back to this Blog.  


4. To be eligible for prizes, you MUST BECOME A FOLLOWER of this BLOG.  


5. Enter as many times as you'd like, but your creations MUST be NEW projects.  NO back linking from prior dates please. 


6. Submit your entries by Midnight, EST, on Saturday, January 25th, 2014.

*SHOW-OFF your own House-Mouse, Gruffies and Happy Hoppers Creations*
by submitting your designs to the official site House-Mouse Designs® - HERE

    

Just look for this HMD Stamped by Me™ button on the site's sidebar and follow the simple steps to upload your House-Mouse Designs® projects.  

Thanks for stopping by. We hope you will have a wonderful and very happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you playing along with us throughout 2014!  :)